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Ignorant   /ˈɪgnərənt/   Listen
adjective
Ignorant  adj.  
1.
Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened. "He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides."
2.
Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; used with of. "Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame."
3.
Unknown; undiscovered. (Obs.) "Ignorant concealment." "Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?"
4.
Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly. "His shipping, Poor ignorant baubles! on our terrible seas, Like eggshells moved."
Synonyms: Uninstructed; untaught; unenlightened; uninformed; unlearned; unlettered; illiterate. Ignorant, Illiterate. Ignorant denotes lack of knowledge, either as to single subject or information in general; illiterate refers to an ignorance of letters, or of knowledge acquired by reading and study. In the Middle Ages, a great proportion of the higher classes were illiterate, and yet were far from being ignorant, especially in regard to war and other active pursuits. "In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than the ears." "In the first ages of Christianity, not only the learned and the wise, but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and death."



noun
Ignorant  n.  A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous. "Did I for this take pains to teach Our zealous ignorants to preach?"






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"Ignorant" Quotes from Famous Books



... themselves; to be false with everybody on this subject; to say "no" when they mean "yes"; to deny an engagement when they are dying to boast of it. It is one of the refinements of Christian civilization which we pray the Women's Missionary Society not to communicate to poor ignorant heathens who know no better than to tell the truth ...
— Duffels • Edward Eggleston

... who stayed away. Their idea of learning all about a creature was to dig up its home, and frighten it out of its wits, and kill it; and after a few moons of that sort of foolery they claimed to know all about us. Us! whose ancestors knew the world millions of years before the ignorant Humans came on the earth at all." The Platypus spluttered out more dirty water, ...
— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley

... you yourself are in this respect much in the power of your contributors. Probably you were as ignorant of the existence of the article in Blackwood as I was.[1] It is now brought {262} before your notice, and I invite you to look at it, and judge for yourself whether A. E. B. has treated you, your paper, or the writer of that very excellent article, with common ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 • Various

... rector, a gross, sack-faced, ignorant jolt-head, jowled like a pig and dew-lapped like an ox. Nature had meant him for a butcher, but, being a by-blow of a great house, a discerning patron had diverted him bishopward. In a voice husky with feeling and wine, he said, "Surely it is the part of a gracious king to reward such faithful ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough

... profession, and who was treated with greater indignity than usually fell to the lot of prisoners, for, after keeping him a couple of days, and finding that, however gifted he might have been in spiritual lore, he was as ignorant as Dominie Sampson on military matters; and, conceiving good provisions to be thrown away upon him, they stripped him nearly naked and dismissed him, like the barber in Gil Blas, with a kick in the breech, and sent him in to us ...
— Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands - from 1809 to 1815 • Captain J. Kincaid


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